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Martin Voracek

Martin Voracek

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Psychology
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
75
Citations
34194
World Ranking
1752
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Martin Voracek is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant number of publications in the field. They have contributed extensively to clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

The major themes in Voracek's work include mindfulness and compassion interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, mental health research topics, suicide and self-harm studies, social and intergroup psychology, personality traits and psychology, and cognitive abilities and testing.

Voracek's recent papers include:

  • Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis (2020), published in BMJ
  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Test Anxiety and Physiological Arousal: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020), published in Educational Psychology Review
  • Charting the landscape of graphical displays for meta-analysis and systematic reviews: a comprehensive review, taxonomy, and feature analysis (2020), published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Association of Logic's hip hop song "1-800-273-8255" with Lifeline calls and suicides in the United States: interrupted time series analysis (2021), published in BMJ

Voracek frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Ulrich S. Tran, Viren Swami, David Moreau, Stefan Stieger, and Thomas Niederkrotenthaler. These collaborations have resulted in multiple co-authored publications.

The scholar's work appears regularly in several publication venues, notably Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, PLoS ONE, Personality and Individual Differences, Frontiers in Psychology, and Body Image.

Best Publications

  • Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

    Alexander A. Aarts;Joanna E. Anderson;Christopher J. Anderson;Peter R. Attridge;Peter R. Attridge

  • Why can't a man be more like a woman? Sex differences in Big Five personality traits across 55 cultures.

    David P. Schmitt;Anu Realo;Martin Voracek;Jüri Allik

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

    Viren Swami;David A Frederick;Toivo Aavik;Lidia Alcalay

  • Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories

    Viren Swami;Martin Voracek;Stefan Stieger;Ulrich S. Tran

  • Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects

    Thomas Niederkrotenthaler;Martin Voracek;Arno Herberth;Benedikt Till

  • Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands

    David P. Schmitt

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Jüri Allik

  • Effects of music therapy for children and adolescents with psychopathology: a meta‐analysis

    Christian Gold;Martin Voracek;Tony Wigram

  • Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories

    Viren Swami;Viren Swami;Rebecca Coles;Stefan Stieger;Jakob Pietschnig

  • Krisenintervention und Suizidverhütung

    Gernot Sonneck;Nestor Kapusta;Gerald Tomandl;Martin Voracek

  • One Century of Global IQ Gains: A Formal Meta-Analysis of the Flynn Effect (1909–2013)

    Jakob Pietschnig;Martin Voracek

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

  • Genetics of suicide: a systematic review of twin studies.

    Martin Voracek;Lisa Mariella Loibl

  • Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Thomas Niederkrotenthaler;Marlies Braun;Jane Pirkis;Benedikt Till

  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychological Research on Conspiracy Beliefs: Field Characteristics, Measurement Instruments, and Associations With Personality Traits.

    Andreas Goreis;Martin Voracek

  • Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner

    David P. Schmitt

  • Mozart effect–Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis

    Jakob Pietschnig;Martin Voracek;Anton K. Formann

  • Meta-analysis of associations between human brain volume and intelligence differences: How strong are they and what do they mean?

    Jakob Pietschnig;Jakob Pietschnig;Lars Penke;Jelte M. Wicherts;Michael Zeiler

  • Sex differences in tax compliance: Differentiating between demographic sex, gender-role orientation, and prenatal masculinization (2D:4D)

    Barbara Kastlunger;Stefan G. Dressler;Erich Kirchler;Luigi Mittone

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich S. Tran
Ulrich S. Tran University of Vienna
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Viren Swami
Viren Swami Anglia Ruskin University
Maryanne L. Fisher
Maryanne L. Fisher Saint Mary's University
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
David P. Schmitt
David P. Schmitt Kansas State University
David Lester
David Lester Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
John T. Manning
John T. Manning Swansea University
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich

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